[CentOS] Problems with 4.3 install - (/boot 75mb)

Bill Schoolcraft bill at wiliweld.com
Thu Apr 13 18:45:44 UTC 2006


At Thu, 13 Apr 2006 it looks like Kai Schaetzl composed:

> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:33:16 -0400 (EDT):
> 
> > Err, investigating whether upstream supports reiser would have been a good 
> > first move.
> 
> Well, shouldn't the setup program not bark about this? I installed CentOS 
> yesterday on a system that had been running reiserfs as well. The partition 
> helper (disk druid or what it is) showed it and didn't indicate I should not 
> setup on it. Luckily, I wanted to wipe and format with ext3, anyway. F.i. if 
> you choose a /boot partition lower than 75 MB (I used 50 MB) setup will sound 
> a warning.
> 

I believe if you choose ext2 vs ext3, the size of 75mb will be fine.
"ext3" needs some extra space for the journeling factor.  For /boot
one needs no journeling anyway, it's not a rw item, virtually a
"read-only" partition.

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